mckibbin 's review for:

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt

4.0

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I've read a number of accounts that approached the "rise of digital music" story from the perspective of the record industry or the tech renegades (Napster, Pirate Bay, etc.), and this book is a good primer for anyone interested in those angles... but the highlight for me was the time spent with the secretive chat room pirates and the guys in the record plants - like Dell Glover - who were responsible for the lion's share of leaks at the time. Great job by the author in tracking down and telling that story.